The PFC is one of California’s top MMA promotions and one of the region’s top draws.

Imes will face Strikeforce and Gladiators Challenge vet Anthony Ruiz (19-10). The former University of Missouri football player, who scored a first-round TKO of Chris Blaire at the PFC’s most recent show, posted back-to-back gogoplata submission victories in his prior two matches. (You can count on one hand the number of fighters who have successfully implemented the rare submission in a professional MMA fight.)

Imes is now riding a five-fight win streak; in fact, his only career losses have come in the UFC. Outside the organization, he’s a perfect 10-0.

Similarly, Saraiva is also 0-3 in the UFC. After consecutive unanimous-decision losses to Dustin Hazelett, Jorge Gurgel and Jeremy Stephens, he left the UFC and was recently picked up by the PFC. The Brazilian jiu-jistu black belt faces Poppies Martinez (13-3) for the PFC’s world lightweight title in the night’s main event.

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) guest columnist and MMA agent Ken Pavia reported in Monday’s column, “The Ultimate Fighter 6″ cast member Richie Hightower has been released from the UFC to gain more experience outside the organization as a welterweight. Pavia mentioned that Hightower was close to signing a three-fight deal with a new organization.

As it turns out, that organization is the PFC, he confirmed. Hightower, who dropped a first-round TKO to Troy Mandaloniz at The Ultimate Fighter 6 Finale, fought once for the organization before he appeared as a cast member on the latest season of the UFC’s reality series.

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